<div dir="ltr"><div><table style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(36,39,41);font-family:arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><td class="m_5132806220067490239gmail-votecell" style="padding:0px 15px 0px 0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top"><div class="m_5132806220067490239gmail-vote" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-align:center;min-width:46px"><a class="m_5132806220067490239gmail-vote-down-off" title="This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful" style="color:rgb(0,119,204);margin:0px auto 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:1px;background-image:url("");background-size:initial;background-repeat:no-repeat;overflow:hidden;display:block;width:40px;height:30px;background-position:0px -220px"><br class="m_5132806220067490239gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">down vote</a><a class="m_5132806220067490239gmail-star-off" href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41994127/will-running-dolphin-file-manager-on-osx-cause-a-lot-of-overhead#" title="Click to mark as favorite question (click again to undo)" style="color:rgb(0,119,204);margin:0px auto 2px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:1px;text-decoration:none;background-image:url("");background-size:initial;background-repeat:no-repeat;overflow:hidden;display:block;width:40px;height:30px;background-position:0px -120px" target="_blank">favorite</a><div class="m_5132806220067490239gmail-favoritecount" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(106,115,124)"></span></div></div></td><td class="m_5132806220067490239gmail-postcell" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><div class="m_5132806220067490239gmail-post-text" style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;width:660px;word-wrap:break-word;line-height:1.3"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both">I am struggling with Finder after switching to Mac from linux. Dolphin was just a much more powerful file manager.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both">Features I miss: - easily editable URL to navigate (although fixed that with Finder Path). - embedded terminal window (very important to me) - tree view - ability to navigate easily without using the mouse - stay on top feature by KDE window manager</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both">I've tried Double Commander, but I still don't find it very intuitive, e.g. see no way to just type/edit the url to where I want to go.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both">So I did <a href="https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-users/2010-May/020074.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer" style="color:rgb(0,89,153);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">read</a> that I could run Dolphin via Macports:</p><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:10px;border-width:0px 0px 0px 2px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:solid;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:rgb(255,235,142);quotes:none;background-color:rgb(255,248,220)"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:10px;border-width:0px 0px 0px 2px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:solid;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:rgb(255,235,142);quotes:none"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both">dolphin is a rather nice file browser. the impression that i get from here <a href="http://dolphin.kde.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer" style="color:rgb(0,89,153);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://dolphin.kde.org/</a>is that one is to install kdebase4. done. so where is dolphin?</p></blockquote><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:5px;border:0px;font-size:13px;width:auto;max-height:600px;overflow:auto;font-family:consolas,menlo,monaco,"lucida console","liberation mono","dejavu sans mono","bitstream vera sans mono","courier new",monospace,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(239,240,241);word-wrap:normal"><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:consolas,menlo,monaco,"lucida console","liberation mono","dejavu sans mono","bitstream vera sans mono","courier new",monospace,sans-serif;white-space:inherit">According to "port contents kdebase4 | grep -i dolphin", there is a dolphin.app in /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4.
</code></pre></blockquote><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both">My question though: If I have to install kdebase4, doesn't that mean a huge amount of overhead just for a file manager? Will it actually run X? Does the installation command above install the whole thing?<br clear="all"></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1">Dorien Herremans, PhD</font></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1">Marie-Curie Fellow</font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1"><a href="http://dorienherremans.com/" target="_blank">http://dorienherremans.com</a><br><br>Queen Mary University of London<br>School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science</font></span><div style="font-size:small"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1">C4DM - Centre for Digital Music, London</font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="1"><a href="http://dorienherremans.com/dlm2017" target="_blank">Workshop on Deep Learning and Music</a>, May'17 Anchorage, Alaska. </font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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